282a Mary Delany, ‘Portlandia grandiflora’, 9...

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TitlePortlandia grandiflora

Creator nameDelany, Mary Granville

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1782

Creation date (description)9 August

Object typeCollage

MaterialsCollage of colored papers, with bodycolor and watercolor, on black ink background

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1897-0505-692

Accession number1897,0505.692

SubjectsCollage, English--18th centuryFlowers in artWomen artistsBotanical illustration

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6. Virtù: The Natural Pleasures of Mary Delany at the Duchess of Portland’s Bulstrode

Mark Laird

A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650–1800

Edmund Burke called Mrs Delany (née Mary Granville, 1700–1788) ‘the highest bred woman in the world, and the woman of fashion of all ages’.Quoted in Ruth Hayden, Mrs Delany and her Flower Collages, 2nd edn (London: British Museum Press, 1992), 129, citing what Dr Johnson heard Edmund Burke say. See also Lady Llanover, ed., The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany, 6 vols (London: Bentley, 1861–2), V, 12. Already recognized in her own times, she continued to attract admirers after Lady Llanover brought out a complete ‘autobiography and correspondence’ in the...

Author

Mark Laird

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.267-325

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Chapter subject tags:Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788Gardens, English--History--18th centuryWomen artists--Great Britain--18th centuryBotanical illustration--England--18th centuryArt and natural history--Great Britain--History--18th centuryBulstrode (England)Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809

A Theater of Mrs. Delany’s Collages

Mark Laird (Editor), Alicia Weisberg-Roberts (Editor)

Mrs. Delany and her Circle

The term “theater” has meanings beyond drama and the places associated with plays or spectacles, lectures, and medical or military operations...

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Mark Laird (Editor), Alicia Weisberg-Roberts (Editor)

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.20-28

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.005

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Chapter subject tags:Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th centuryBotanical illustration--England--18th centuryWomen artists--Great Britain--18th centuryDelany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788Art and natural history--Great Britain--History--18th century

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